Well what a brilliant few days! Friday morning I headed to London where I negotiated the underground system and made it to Paddington to catch my train to my BFF’s house. Does anyone else think that Paddington is a pretty depressing station? Beautiful structure, woeful content. Anyway, made the connection and off I went, through rolling countryside. So far, so good huh? Yeah, hold that thought. We are now approaching the relevant stop. I get my stuff together and make my way to the carriage door. I remember the BFF telling me that the doors are tricky but I’ve never had to manage them before as the guard has always done it for me, however as we come into the station there is no guard alongside my section. Eeeeek. I pull the window down & reach out of it to open the door where the handle is conveniently situated on the OUTSIDE. Now, as you know, I’m a short-arse, added to which I’m wearing trainers. This means that I can barely reach the handle, but then when I do, I’m totally unbalanced and as the door swings open, yep, you’ve got it, I travel with the door. I’m now on tiptoes, stretching out through the train door, upper body through the window, toes just on the carriage floor. Unfortunately however, the door continues to swing open. I have now left the carriage and an dangling, complete with rucksack and bouquet of flowers (for BFF) through a train window. I now see 3 guards plus the BFF all watching me in complete bewilderment. To say I had sweaty palms would be an utter understatement. I knew I had to let go but how? My entire upper body is one side of the door and my lower is the other. In the end I tilted and somehow managed to avoid face planting on the platform. One of the guards walks up to shut the door behind me and graciously says ‘nice save’. Funny guy.
After that, there’s not much to say other than I have a wonderful BFF, had a brilliant time, ate & drank too much but walked loads and swam 1/2 mile each day. According to my bathroom scales, I’ve put on 4lbs which will make for an interesting tally tomorrow. Yeah, you know those 2.5lbs I’ve lost over the past 5 weeks? Um, well i’m now 1.5lbs heavier than when I started. By way of trying to remedy the situation, I did a fast day today (unsurprisingly) – M&S lamb pilaf, very nice indeed, plus both a Zumba & Body Combat class. I’m exhausted. Night night xx